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New Dehli covered in a haze of smog

India plans to spray water over its capital New Delhi to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency.
Maybe combat it by being a lot stricter on what generates the smog in the first place?

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A traffic policeman wearing a mask controls the traffic at a busy road on a smoggy morning in New Delhi STRINGER/REUTERS

An airport staff member speaks on his mobile phone as a plane carrying Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, taxis after it landed at Air Force Station Palam on a smoggy day in New Delhi CATHAL MCNAUGHTON/REUTERS